The Ministry Growth Show

The Ministry Growth Show

The Ministry Growth Show is a podcast dedicated to helping ministry executives and church leaders grow the reach and impact of their organizations for the Kingdom of God. Each episode features interviews with ministry executives, church leaders, storytellers and marketing experts as we discuss the strategies, struggles, challenges, and successes of developing successful Christian ministries and organizations.

Episodes

November 14, 2022 64 mins

In this episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we are joined by Chris Harper, Executive Director of Betterman. Chris shares how Betterman is helping redefine biblical masculinity in a world where a clear definition of masculinity is so desperately needed. Betterman is lead by some incredible thought leaders and practitioners on the subject of biblical masculinity and you’re not going to want to miss this episode. Enjoy!

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In this episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we talk with Dr. Anton Venter, Chief Strategy Officer at The City Changers Movement. In this episode, Anton shares his insights on how City Changers is using leadership development and church partnership to transform entire cities for Christ around the world. Enjoy! Relevant

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In this episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we talk with David Nelson from Crossing Cultures International as David shares his insights from 36 years of cross cultural disciple-making experience. David and I discuss the disciple-making model David and his team are using all over the world and he shares his thoughts on the importance of storytelling in donor development and communication. Enjoy! Relevant Resources: Bill Hull - ...

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October 11, 2022 32 mins

In this episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we share our agencies website design strategy and show how The Hero’s Journey story structure can be used to tell a story with the structure of information on your website. Your website should be a marketing tool that engages and converts. It should tell a story both in it’s informational structure, but also as a placeholder and mantle for the stories coming out of your ministry. In this...

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October 3, 2022 15 mins

In this episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we discuss the ethics of storytelling. It’s important to tell stories ethically. Guilt marketing and poverty porn should be things of the past, yet these are marketing tactics that are still used today. Ignorance is not an excuse and we need to do better. In this episode, we’re sharing some of the best practices we use to ensure that we are doing our best to tell stories ethically. 

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the basics of scriptwriting and show you how you can take any beneficiaries story and fit it into a story formula. The story formula we use is The Hero’s Journey, and it’s effective because it’s a story that we all experience in our ...

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the third phase of our documentary storytelling process, Post-Production. Post-Production is where everything comes together in the editing process. This is where you can really get creative and you can make your film shine. This is ...

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the second phase of our documentary storytelling process, Production. The production phase is where you actually get to start creating content. You’ll perform your interviews and most likely capture b-roll in this stage of the proces...

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be discussing the first phase of our documentary storytelling process, Pre-Production. Pre-Production is a crucial piece to the documentary process, yet it’s often times the most overlooked stage. We need a clear plan of action when we set out to ...

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be showing how The Hero’s Journey story structure pops up in many of the most recognizable stories throughout scripture. This is a story structure that we believe is engrained in us by our creator. A story structure that He used to tell the storie...

In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be highlighting a problem that we see in the Church that we’re calling Story Poverty. This is not a fun and creative play on words. We truly see that the Church is in a state of story poverty. Our business marketing communication styles from the 8...

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re continuing a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand, marketing, and storytelling. Today, we’ll be highlighting the power of history of storytelling. Stories have power. They have the power to emotionally engage people, to sway decisions, the power to transform, encourage, and edify. We can use this powerful tool to help our ministries grow ...

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re sharing our thoughts and insights on the visual identity portion of your brand. When we say brand, most people think of a logo, but a brand is built up of so many more elements than just your logo. Today, we’re discussing the visual identity and the importance of consistency in your brand. 

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of guiding principles and story-driven messaging. This is episode 3 in a series where we are sharing our thoughts and insights on all things brand and story. Story is a powerful marketing tool, and today we’re discussing how story can be applied to your guiding principles and messaging structures.

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In this week’s episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we’re sharing our thoughts and insights on purpose-driven strategy. Every organization should have clear communication rooted in beliefs and a Why. Today, we’re going to share our thoughts on strategy and walk you through the process we take all of our clients.

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In this week's episode of The Ministry Growth Show, we are starting a new series where we'll be sharing our thoughts and insights on all things marketing and storytelling for the ministry space. This will be a 13-episode series where we'll go in-depth and share how we approach messaging, strategy, brand development, design, storytelling, and all things marketing. If you've ever wondered how we view brand and storytelling, you won't...

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This week on The Ministry Growth Show, Amber Van Schooneveld joins us from The Exodus Road to discuss storytelling with dignity. Amber is an experienced storytelling and her insights on the ethics of storytelling are profound. Storytelling is important and it's incredibly powerful, but "with great power comes great responsibility." - Ben Parker.

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This week on The Ministry Growth Show we're joined by Baolerhu Lidgen, Founder and Executive Director of Asia Leadership Development Network. Baolerhu shares his insights leading a ministry based in Mongolia where Christianity was only recently introduced and the Mongolian church is young. Asia Leadership Development Network has a significant digital presence in the country and Baolerhu shares his insights leading in a digital age....

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This week on The Ministry Growth Show we're talking with Sue Warnke, Senior Director of Content Experience at Sales Force, a part of the team that founded Faith Force, and the founder of the Leanership Blog. In this episode, Sue shares her insights on some ways to "wake up the Church through business."

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The week on The Ministry Growth Show we're joined by Edward Bailey, Founder and CEO of Faryn Recovery and Faryn Leaders. In this episode, Edward shares his expertise and insights on casting vision and growing a successful ministry quickly. He also weighs in on the importance of storytelling in the development of any organization.

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